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#205895
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Info Wanted: OSCAR CEREMONIES FAN RECORDING AND PRESERVATION
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/205895/action/topic#205895
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The current big problem I have in trying to help a few people out on these here boards with the amount of archive stuff I have simply hoarded over the years is this...

I'm an editor, mostly working out and about around town (London) and using other kit. In recent years, I stopped working for others and have been developing my own projects. For this I've been using an old PC workhorse running on (don't faint!) two Pentium IIIs. From what I've been told, my computer couldn't deal with a DVD writer being installed so I have not gone down that route (the software I use has to remain Win2000 compatible too, so that strikes out installing anything that can easily convert my Matrox files to MPEG2 (trying to do so takes A G E S and always crashes the system. Usually, if I need DVD stuff done, it goes on a laptop and taken across the road to someone who converts and burns the discs. But I can't ask them to work for nothing and conver the amount of material we're looking at doing here.

Second problem is that I am now directing my own show, which is picking up in June, and am involved in doing the EPK for another movie between now and then!

So time is an issue as well as my crap old system. I have a ton of stuff and really want to get it all to you, but how and when is an issue. I'm looking at getting a DVD Recorder, which would solve all probs, but can't justify that for now when I have so many other bills and expenses coming up.

Getting stuff onto DVCam is not a problem at all, but no-one seems able to play it!!
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#205598
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The Thief and the Cobbler: Recobbled Director's Cut (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/205598/action/topic#205598
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Okay... what can we do about the stuff I have?

Again: we need someone in the UK with a hard drive or DVD Recorder that can get to Elstree Studios and sit for a day transferring files. I don't mind paying towards costs to make this happen, as I have a good amount of stuff that would bolster the overall set.

I just can't justify buying a DVD Rec right now what with so many other bills and things that need seeing to (I know this pales in comparison to what Garrett is going through at the moment, but still)...

If anyone really is unable to help out, I'll just have to go VHS on y'all, but I'll continue to ask around and see what I might be able to do.


Time is running out tho...next Tuesday a new Bob Hoskins movie starts shooting which I'm doing the EPK for, and then I'm straight on to my own project in mid-June, so I am worried that I may not even be around for a few weeks.

HELP!
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#205596
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Idea & Info: "Darkman" - unaired tv pilot & info on a bonus disc project...
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/205596/action/topic#205596
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Excellent! Where doth this new sprout from, Vess, and how legit are the specs (what were the ***s - TBC)?

I kinda liked the DTV follow ups. Not in the same league AT ALL, but fun little pictures that were at least given some decent production value and shot in widescreen (ahem...have we come on so far when we still get even more retarded s**t thrown at us like, um...Hollow Man 2?).

Besides, say if this set goes for $15 or even $20 online, you're basically getting the sequels "free". I just hope they move some of these special features to the sequel side - the movie has enough on its own with DTS, commentaries and the pilot, and its II and III that could do with having their image downgraded a few bits overall to fit those juicy extras in.
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#205176
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Idea & Info: "Darkman" - unaired tv pilot & info on a bonus disc project...
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/205176/action/topic#205176
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After the "Tremors: Attack Pack" collection from Universal, I am surprised that the Darkman "series" hasn't seen a similar release. The first one is in serious need of some kind of SE, and the unaird TV pilot would be a great addition.

Hmmmm...

Disc 1: Darkman / Darkman pilot / Retro doc / Trailer

Disc 2: Return Of Durant / Die Darkman Die / Trailers


I know the sequels weren't "all that", but it would a neat set.
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#205175
Topic
The Thief and the Cobbler: Recobbled Director's Cut (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/205175/action/topic#205175
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What's the sitch with a hard drive or DVD recorder turning up at my place at Elstree?

Anyone in the UK able to do this? I can work on getting things ready to roll...

Quicktime can play the Matrox AVI format, so if you have FCP you can convert. Damn my old, old, PC for not being up to the job...


BTW, on the archive movies TV docs - great idea. There are some very good choices in there. The BBC did a GREAT doc on Citizen Kane which wasn't on the DVD...I'll have to covert that too (one day!)...

I also have another VHS of Metropolis that claims to run for 2hrs 20m...??? I suspect some slow frame rate shenanigans here!
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#204479
Topic
The Thief and the Cobbler: Recobbled Director's Cut (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/204479/action/topic#204479
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I know it doesn't really help...but you're welcome to jump on a plane and live at mine. Bit expensive though, and probably cheaper to find a place.

Regarding Mpeg2 - it takes a night to render out a few seconds and always crashes. I'm more than happy to help out and offer what I can, but only in the way that I know I can do quickly.

Been thinking about that DVD recorder though, and will look in to that if time comes up.
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#204475
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Little Shop of Horrors original ending (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/204475/action/topic#204475
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Wow - never knew WB had the ending more completed than that. I wonder why they never put it out - even on the disc that was in stores for a day or so - and used the black/white workprint VHS dub instead?

Being on the HUGE Skid-Row set at Pinewood as a kid in '85 is one experience I shall never forget!

There were a ton of scenes I saw them shooting for that never made it in, including an extended "Meek Shall Inherit" sequence with Seymour on some kind of huge contract waiting to be signed...

"But then, there's Audrey... Lovely Audrey..."
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#204242
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Idea & Help Wanted: Mission impossible 3 hype
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/204242/action/topic#204242
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Saw this at the weekend. In a word, it...stinks.

Story's okay, but the direction is lack-lustre, kind of like the opening of The World Is Not Enough, where all the cuts come about two seconds too late. Abrams seems to be too in love with his shots to cut early enough to keep momentum going.

Plus some really silly stuff: one female spy's starts taking secret pics of villain Philip Seymour Hoffman and they've added in little flashes as her camera goes off - which NO ONE else seems to notice. Full of silly stuff like that.

Yet again, a M:I film fails to live up to the original series...
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#204240
Topic
The Thief and the Cobbler: Recobbled Director's Cut (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/204240/action/topic#204240
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Aimed at anyone in the UK - Anyone have a PD-150 Sony camera?

Coz that is DVCam format and will play my tapes. If anyone in the UK has that at least then they can capture via Firewire into their computers.

Or... REALLY CRAZY IDEA... How much is a 20/30gb hard drive? I could perhaps shift everything onto one drive and send that out? It would be in the Matrox uncompressed AVI format (which DEFINATELY plays in Quicktime and FCP). That's a pretty crazy idea.


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BTW, I checked out that Raggedy Ann And Andy disc - did you guys realize that the WHOLE THING is anamorphically stretched, and lot just the opening shots of the girl? At least the version I have is.

Now, imagine a 2.35:1 movie (which Ann And Andy is), and chop the ends off to roughly 1.78/1.85 - THAT's what is retained in the version I have - it's so clear from anything circular that the image is stretched. It's only at the end that the manual extra squeeze comes in to push it back to the full 2.35 squash, but the rest of the movie is DEFINATELY vertically stretched out and retains much more picture image than a regular pan-and-scan job would do.

I can't work out if it's an LD transfer or not, but the quality is higher than VHS and there doesn't seem to be the "VHS line" that you get at the bottom of the image in overscan. There is ONE tape-like dropout on the CBS/FOX logo at the top of the print, but after that I did not detect any other defects and even red colors were locked in and looked good. Horizontal lines are also strong, so I suspect this is an LD transfer.

I agree with a post above - the stair chase scene is a dead ringer for the same in The Thief...definitely some kind of test (or maybe a time saver, to use already completed animation, albeit uncolored, for the sequence).
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#203803
Topic
The Thief and the Cobbler: Recobbled Director's Cut (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/203803/action/topic#203803
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"I hardly count as a pro, but I know the feeling! This stuff has to be pushed aside when "real filmmaking" arises. =D"

Great...thanks for understanding. Pretty cool news for us geeks: we just got Vic Armstrong on board as our stunt advisor and second unti action director. Went up to his place at the weekend and saw his awesome home theater as well as the ORIGINAL Indy hat and whip! Had a good chat about projectors and what I felt was the best out there, as he is looking to get a new one. Surreal, geek paradise!


"BH also knows that feeling at the moment I'm sure - might explain why he's so busy. I'll give you his address, as I'm sure he can handle the transfer ... somehow."

Who's BH, and what's the best way to get stuff to him? I can, over the next couple of weeks, start dubbing the stuff to DVCam, but wanna be sure he can handle it before spending any time that might end up wasted.


"Wonderful that you've tracked most of it down ... keep looking for the Oscars and The Little Island. I forget if you had the 1983 pre-Williams Roger Rabbit scenes."

No pre-1983 RW Roger scenes, but I would dearly, dearly love to see more and have all of that stuff (I'm pretty obsessive about Roger Rabbit. Actually, another project I'm involved in just landed Bob Hoskins for the lead, so I'm heading down to set to get all my Roger stuff signed)! Will try again on Oscars and Little Island at the weekend.


"As for beating Warners' 14-disc Superman .... if you count my "optional discs for completionists", I already have. =D"

I thought we were up to 12/13?? I guess with the new stuff that pushes it past. The Thief is going to easily be the best collector's edition set ever, by the sounds of things!


"I still don't wanna spam Don Hahn!"

Okay...here's the thing. I have Don's phone number and direct email address. I was working on an animated musical at one point (co-wrote 16 song demos and did some artwork) and we proposed taking it to Disney. By chance I met the producer of a movie shot at Elstree who knew Don - she'd given him his first producer gig on Roger Rabbit - and she suggested we take it out to him. So we hopped on a plane and had a fun meeting with Don at WDFA in Burbank. The project ended up (eventually) at the direct-to-video department, where they wanted to water it down and take out half the story to get it to video budgets at the time (1998). We then had an offer from Fox Animation (another Don, this time Bluth, who had the experience with the fairytale format we were drawing on) and we decided to go with them, but then Bartok The Magnificent and Titan AE both crashed and burned and that was the end of Fox Animation!

BUT...I still have Don's WDFA contacts. Not sure how I would approach him, or if he's the right guy to talk to, but thats a possible possibility. I also potentially have links to Andreas Deja and Eric Goldberg, if we wanted to be more stealth like and just possibly get an idea if this is floating around anywhere right now at the Mouse House.
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#203638
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Howard The Duck - special edition (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/203638/action/topic#203638
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Hey...

Sorry for my frankly shite timing - I'm actually a director, helming my first project and getting more and more tied up in production. I was actually thinking of starting a thread up for people to stay in contact directly since I am not getting the time to keep up to date and on track of the few threads I'd like to help out on - there's so much going on here that I'd like to have done myself or be able to participate in!

I found the "Howard The Duck" taping from TV here - great news - though it is only PAL VHS, it is in anamorphic widescreen and what I suspect is probably Dolby (Pro Logic) surround.

My only problem is...I have no home equipment - it's all pro-stuff at an edit suite at Elstree Studios. Therefore, the only formats I can really play out to easily are VHS (but then losing a generation) and DVCam (note NOT MiniDV. DVCam is the pro-version of that and uses the same size tape but at a faster, non-drop out pitch. DVCam will not automatically play back on home camcorders, but some may surprise).

Burning to DVD has never been needed as an option (it's all usually done out of house), although I have been thinking about a DVD recorder for home. This will probably wait until after the shoot is done, which will be a few months. So...if anyone can handle DVCam and get that coverted, let me know. It'll be PAL of course, and recording the contents to tape will have to be fit in as and when I can, but I'll get it done eventually!
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#203636
Topic
The Thief and the Cobbler: Recobbled Director's Cut (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/203636/action/topic#203636
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Hey guys...

Sorry for my frankly shite timing - I'm actually a director, helming my first project and getting more and more tied up in production. I was actually thinking of starting a thread up for people to stay in contact directly since I am not getting the time to keep up to date and on track of the few threads I'd like to help out on - there's so much going on here that I'd like to have done myself or be able to participate in!

I can't exactly remember what I was looking for in relation to The Thief, but I see The Little Island is a possibility. Let me know if you need transfer costs, I could maybe manage to send on $60 if need be.

Re: Animating Art and I Drew Roger Rabbit - I found the tapes. Good news: Animating Art is in good shape, on BetaSP. Lesser good news (but not totally bad): I Drew Roger Rabbit is NOT on BetaSP, but a copy on S-VHS from the original U-Matic source. Still probably better than what you have but no harm in sending it all and you can match up what's best.

Roger Rabbit And The Secrets Of ToonTown - found both of these (the original off-air VHS and my "special edition" with extra Richard Williams speaking about the Benny The Cab sequence). Again, I can send both out if you'd like.

Academy Awards 1989/1990 - found a stash of VHS Oscar tapings, but the earliest they went back was 1992 (frustrating!!). Bear with me as I have another bunch of tapes to go through and am *fairly* confident that we may have this yet.

WAS THERE ANYTHING ELSE??

On the supplements: seem you may beat Warners with their 14-disc Superman set this Christmas!


My only problem is...I have no home equipment - it's all pro-stuff at an edit suite at Elstree Studios. Therefore, the only formats I can really play out to easily are VHS (but then losing a generation) and DVCam (note NOT MiniDV. DVCam is the pro-version of that and uses the same size tape but at a faster, non-drop out pitch. DVCam will not automatically play back on home camcorders, but some may surprise).

Burning to DVD has never been needed as an option (it's all usually done out of house), although I have been thinking about a DVD recorder for home. This will probably wait until after the shoot is done, which will be a few months. So...if anyone can handle DVCam and get that coverted, let me know. It'll be PAL of course, and recording the contents to tape will have to be fit in as and when I can, but I'll get it done eventually!

I'm still here, but under various pressures, as I hope you'll understand.
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#200956
Topic
The Thief and the Cobbler: Recobbled Director's Cut (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/200956/action/topic#200956
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Funny about the "Funny Thing" thing. I def think those should be included, as the animation - 'specially Buster Keaton's in the close - is great and a little different to anything else RW has done (as usual).

I'm sure "The Little Island" was shown on BBC 2 or Channel Four here in the UK. I'm going up to my mother's on Sunday and will check out some boxed up tapes. Trouble is I never labelled anything!

I will go through and see what I can find. Will get on to the "I Drew..." and "Art" dosc next week.


BTW, how is PAL DVCam for you?? It's the pro version of MiniDVD (with no dropout) and the easisest, less compressed format I could get things to you quicker. That or Digital Betacam...?

I may have a real prob getting from good old analogu BetaSP into a digi format to transfer to DVD...
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#200954
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Little Shop of Horrors original ending (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/200954/action/topic#200954
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Is that the new restored/colorized Legend Films edition? If so, which one are you going to present?

Would be GREAT if they, or someone, could colorize the b/w ending footage. BUT WAIT!! A rumor from deep within Warner Bros perhaps has this on the cards. They are known to be doing a 2-disc Little Shop, and have said they "want to do it right". From another source, I have heard mention of color elements.

Seemless branching to pick a "happy" or "sad/original" ending would be cool, and it's something WB is playing with on the new Final Destination flick on DVD, but as far as I know right now, it's just an extra...
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#200951
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Help Wanted: 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit?' Laserdisc Footage - censored scene
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/200951/action/topic#200951
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Yes, Rigid Tools - that was it. I heard it was because the gag was overtly sexual, maybe a combination of things?

My biggest problem is that I have all PAL equipment. I would gladly try and grab the CAV frames with the clear poster, but it's NTSC. I'm seeing a friend next week who has an Apple FCP. Maybe we can input directly into his computer, but I don't think he has any analog ins...!